We were going to leave Saturday and head up to Kitimat for a week's job for Ron before his school reunion July 1st weekend, but the hot weather is causing a huge snow pack melt, plus rain and the rivers are starting to head for the top of the banks. The Fraser Valley and most rivers in the province are sandbagging to avoid devastation like the 1948 flood. I remember mom and I making millions of sandwiches and dad and Peter down at the river filling sandbags right through the night. A week ago there was a huge slide down a mountainside 48 Km before Terrace which blocked Highway 16 and there is no way in, so our trip is on hold at the moment. The hillside is so unstable crews don't dare go near it and now it is raining. The Skeena River is so high that it has gone over the banks flooding Terrace and flooded Highway 16 for 2 Km shown above. Watching the news means flood watch every hour and many people have evacuated their homes and many more may need to leave at a moment's notice. This shows the slide which is 30' deep covering the highway. The semis are crossing the water earlier this week but blocked out now.
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